Hurricane Dorian Threat Level: Orange (Still Cold)

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zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

fishing with the fam posted:

The ability to live stream disasters and vicariously experience other's misery from across the country is humanity's greatest accomplishment.

I don't know, a weatherman hunching over in a rain storm next to a fan doing very trained speaking-like-im-straining is often more interesting than most of the videos that aren't straight up somebody dying. Maybe I'm too traditional.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2019 18:58

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 09:39

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

FogHelmut posted:

That's a direct hit on Palm Beach. RIP Mar-a-Lago

That's not how these maps work agggggggh.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 14:40

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Normal brain: buy water before the storm
Planet brain: buy water at the start of hurricane season, it doesn't go bad
Galaxy brain: fill potable Jerry cans and keep some chlorine tabs on hand
Universe brain: buy mountain dew at the start of hurricane season, it doesn't go bad and provides vital sustenance, hydration, and caffeination

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 14:49

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

big nipples big life posted:

what brain is drink water from the toilet and bathtub to prove how smart you are?

Amoeba brain.

Is it amoeba brain because of the size or because there are amoebas in it? Yes.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 14:56

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

While most of the models are slotting in near Palm Beach or Port St Lucie or maybe a little north, the meat in the loop still haven't ruled out the weird stuff like direct hit on the keys or South Carolina. It's still like 4 days out so a lot can happen to steer it in new and interesting ways.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 18:16

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Everybody hopes it recurves.

Monkeys paw curls. It recurves in exactly the right way to King tide turbofuck the Eastern seaboard.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 22:12

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Stereotype posted:

So are waves maybe gonna gently caress everything up? Sustained 35ft shore breaks washing whole communities into the sea?

That would be novel.

The new moon is just ending so the high tides are already obnoxious without a hurricane sitting just off coast pushing the ocean in. Gonna get a sea level rise sneak peak.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2019 13:02

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

SirPablo posted:

But it's gonna miss Florida.

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1168174382126026753?s=19

By god, its not recurving, its moving Florida to the west!

# ¿ Sep 1, 2019 19:27

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

soy posted:

Ya but it�s really not. Tons of random poo poo survives in a cat5. The difference between 157mph and 200+ mph should be noted.

If you're worried about the difference between 157 and 200 mph you're reading model digests, dissertations, and case studies, not NOAA public products.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2019 00:28

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

deadeyez posted:

So let's say this hits Florida and just fucks everything up and disappears a bunch of people due to complete devastation. What's the cutoff point where people are considered dead?

Have you seen the documentary anime Fist of the North Star

# ¿ Sep 2, 2019 04:28

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

August just ended and the Atlantic is a hot tub right now, if that sucker makes no/partial landfall it's gonna be organized and pushing Cat 1 winds till it passes Maine or makes landfall, whichever comes first. Chesapeake Bay is still very much in the cards to take a cat 1 hit.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2019 14:43

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

The Walrus posted:

is that actually a bad idea? it seems ok

Unless they have monster test couplings and pile driven anchors they're just gonna blow off and go through someone's window.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2019 14:48

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Only place where you can stick the bill in the strippers underwear and it ends up dryer than before.

Swampy land can keep storms stronger than a lot of models expect, but it's stronger relatively. Just the land being there is a big enough drag that most storms can't stay organized. But also the impacts start being water and it turns instead of a conveyor belt taking the ocean into your city, now it's a conveyor belt taking the diversion back into the city.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2019 18:24

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

redleader posted:

so they'll need to treat water from aquifers real hard? flood water is disgusting

If you pick the right geologic features, simply putting it into the aquifer is doing 90% of the treating. Physical filtration does most of what you need and you can get a lot of that from porous rock and/or aggregate strata. So all that remains after pumping it out is something like an activated charcoal filter and a microorganism treatment.

Not sure how prevalent its become but some of the water jurisdictions in California were treating sewer water to be near as drinkable as you can get, but its otherwise discouraged to circulate that straight back into the drinking water loop. So they would pump it into a a low residence time aquifer and pump out "fresh water" out the other end and really the aquifer did the last bit of polishing needed to turn the poop water fully clean and the drinking treatment was easier than dealing with dregs of the Colorado the farmers leave the cities.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2019 00:31

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 09:39

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Artonos posted:

I don't know where you are in the world/US. But from what I understand charcoal filters are even too expensive. Municipalities just want to get the chunks and dirt out and add a bit of bleach to kill bacteria and call it a day. Highly variable though depending on where you are in the USA. Many places do different things and you may be completely correct for Colorado.

I know flint, Newark and Colorado all have way different issues going on.

Activated charcoal is ridiculously expensive compared to the gold standard goal of sand filter and bleach it. And aquifers (and wetlands/diversions) do have a bit of reduction of organic bullshit that you don't get from surface takeoff. But we've done hosed up our runoff regulations so it's probably going to be a required step in more places to come to not Flint yourself. And even if the run off is contained we were talking about flood water which can pick up otherwise contained pollutants.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2019 13:00

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